I am interested in finding new PhD students interested in work and technology, especially work and intelligent machines. You can find more information on the program here. Please get in touch if you have questions or are thinking about applying.

NSF just announced funding for our (me, Jeff Nickerson and Ingrid Erickson) Research Coordination Network on the Socio-Technological Landscape of Work in the Age of Increased Automation. See the press release here and the award summary here.

University of Alabama has a nice article about Gravity Spy.

Other popular press coverage: Citizen scientists join search for gravitational waves, Symmetry Magazine.

A few months ago, I attended a Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop on "Engineering Academic Software". The report from that workshop is now available online, DOI 10.4230/DagRep.6.6.62.

I recently gave a webinar for the National Consortium for Data Science on Humans, Machines, and the Future of Citizen Science.